I Surprise Myself by Liking "Young Adult"
Young Adult was a happy upheaval of my presumed taste in movies. Typically, I think of myself as someone who dislikes bone-deep cynicism, who finds it cheap and lazy. Yet the cynicism in Young Adult, which is directed by Jason Reitman and written by Diablo Cody, manages to be insightful, humane, and comic in both [...]